...#HarryPotterFirstEdition #PhilosopherStone #RareBookAuction #HeritageAuctions #CollectorFinds #BookSellOut #LiteraryTreasure #JoanneRowling #WorthPoint #BookToScreen #HBOHP2026 #MalteseFalcon #DuneFirstEdition #EarlyBibles #CollectibleBooks A first‑printing hardcover of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone fetched $400,000 at Heritage Auctions on October 14, making it the second‑highest price ever paid for the title. Only 500 copies were issued in that inaugural 1997 run by Bloomsbury, and the record remains the $471,000 hammer price Heritage set in December 2021.